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Tag Archives: John William Waterhouse
BEYOND COMPREHENSION OF ORDINARY MEN
What does a dragon enjoy? It enjoys sleep. If large, for a thousand years; small ones, not less than several hundred years. After such a long hibernation, a dragon will enter into a nirvana like state to renew itself. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Chinese female divinities, Chinese literature, goddess of the Lo River, History of Chinese Literature, Hsiang Goddess, J.W. Waterhouse, John William Waterhouse, Li Ho, Lo Goddess, M.C. Escher, Mermaids, Nu Kua and Fu Hsi, Sung Yu, Victor H. Mair, Wu-shan goddess
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PRINCES IN SCALY ARMOR
Dragon ladies and water fairies. Fish Maidens, rain mothers and other hybrid critters. Now you see them, now you don’t. These powerful shimmering phenomena of the Chinese imagination reveal themselves but briefly through mist and clouds.Watery nymphs beloved by mortal … Continue reading
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Tagged Beowulf, Chinese mythology, Erasmus Darwin, Friedrich de la Motte, Friedrich de la Motte Fouque, Geoffrey Chaucer, Hsia Dynasty, J.W. Waterhouse, John Milton, John Milton Comus, John William Waterhouse, King Nereus, Maclise Undine, Nu Kua, Richard Wagner, Undine Danube nymph, William Blake
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